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1: 36.14 Other Physical Applications

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§36.14(ii) Optics

►Diffraction catastrophes describe the connection between ray optics and wave optics. …

2: 11.12 Physical Applications

… ►Applications of Struve functions occur in water-wave and surface-wave problems (Hirata (1975) and Ahmadi and Widnall (1985)), unsteady aerodynamics (Shaw (1985) and Wehausen and Laitone (1960)), distribution of fluid pressure over a vibrating disk (McLachlan (1934)), resistive MHD instability theory (Paris and Sy (1983)), and optical diffraction (Levine and Schwinger (1948)). …

3: Sidebar 7.SB1: Diffraction from a Straightedge

… ►Fresnel integrals have many applications in optics. …

4: 36 Integrals with Coalescing Saddles

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5: Charles W. Clark

… ►Clark was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1992, of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in 1994, of the Institute of Physics in 1999, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001, and of the Washington Academy of Sciences in 2003. … ►He has served as Chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the APS, Chair of the Physics Section of the AAAS, and as Program Manager for Atomic, Molecular, and Quantum Physics at the U. …

6: Michael V. Berry

… ►Berry has published numerous papers on theoretical physics, mainly in quantum mechanics and optics and including the development of associated mathematics, especially asymptotics and geometry. …

7: 9.16 Physical Applications

… ►Details of the Airy theory are given in van de Hulst (1957) in the chapter on the optics of a raindrop. … ►Within classical physics, they appear prominently in physical optics, electromagnetism, radiative transfer, fluid mechanics, and nonlinear wave propagation. … ►In the case of the rainbow, the scattering amplitude is expressed in terms of $\mathrm{Ai}\left(x\right)$, the analysis being similar to that given originally by Airy (1838) for the corresponding problem in optics. …

8: Bibliography K

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Optical Waveguides. Quantum Electronics - Principles and Applications, Academic Press, New York.

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§10.73(i).

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Dark optical solitons: Physics and applications. Physics Reports 298 (2-3), pp. 81–197.

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§22.19(iii).

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Rays and caustics as physical objects. In Progress in Optics, E. Wolf (Ed.), Vol. 26, pp. 227–348.

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§36.14(i).

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9: Bibliography F

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Evaluation, design and extrapolation methods for optical signals, based on use of the prolate functions. In Progress in Optics, E. Wolf (Ed.), Vol. 9, pp. 311–407.

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§30.15(i), §30.15(ii), §30.15(iii), §30.15(iv), §30.15(v), §30.15(v).

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10: 10.73 Physical Applications

… ►Consequently, Bessel functions $J_n\left(x\right)$, and modified Bessel functions $I_n\left(x\right)$, are central to the analysis of microwave and optical transmission in waveguides, including coaxial and fiber. …